Hello,

I have installed KDE4 from experimental on my SID installation and ran into
some problems with aptitude/dpkg. I got around it with no big deal (but for
some reasons I cannot install kdeartwork, if I try it wants to remove most
of my kde3 apps...).

My current problem is that KDE does not really start, whether I try from kdm
or startx I get the same behavior:
The KDE4 splash screen comes on a blue (or black) background. The hard-drive
icon jumps around for a few seconds (minutes?) and then it vanishes to only
leave me the background.

Right now I cannot detail much my errors as I am at work and for some
reasons my SSH is not working anymore (I'm guessing this is related). Basic
issues for now:
- the computer hangs up if I try to reboot it (it just hangs up around stop
syslogd), same thing if I try something with sudo.
- the error message from .xsession-errors tells me there is an error with
kded4 but not much more. If I start kded4 myself, it tells me it cannot find
the dbus session and then I believe it mentions X11 (sorry not a very
detailed message here).

dbus-daemon is indeed started, but then I do not know much about it so I
cannot try anything. The qdbus binary is in the $PATH. I believe I have
every dbus package needed but I could be wrong.

The above was tried with the normal user and the root.

What can I do to help you with that? (probably getting a better error
message, but most of the ones I am getting are generic ones, so I am not
even sure the one kded4 gives me is the original one...). I cannot say where
the error is coming at all.

(I tried dist-upgrading part of my system to experimental, just in case but
it did not really do it either...)

Thank you!
<http://packages.debian.org/experimental/kdeartwork>

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